Trending Inventors this year
The 100 most-viewed inventors this year on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Elon Musk.
100
Ranked
3,699,873
Total Views (this year)
1
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
332,099
views
views
2
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
156,572
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views
3
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
139,837
views
views
4
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
137,057
views
views
5
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
102,453
views
views
6
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
101,391
views
views
7
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker (born 1954)
100,117
views
views
8
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
86,254
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views
9
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
85,393
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views
10
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
85,008
views
views
11
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
77,183
views
views
12
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
76,546
views
views
13
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
74,270
views
views
14
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
72,198
views
views
15
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
56,847
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views
16
Justin Roiland
American animator and voice actor (born 1980)
54,654
views
views
17
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
54,063
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views
18
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
49,860
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views
19
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
48,578
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views
20
Luigi Mangione
American suspect of the assassination of Brian Thompson
47,301
views
views
21
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
47,272
views
views
22
Toby Fox
American video game designer and composer (born 1991)
40,929
views
views
23
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
40,473
views
views
24
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
40,252
views
views
25
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
40,234
views
views
26
Bobby Fischer
American chess player (1943–2008)
38,599
views
views
27
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
37,247
views
views
28
Palmer Luckey
American founder of Oculus VR and inventor of the Oculus Rift
37,022
views
views
29
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
35,551
views
views
30
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
33,118
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views
31
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
32,865
views
views
32
Ben Reilly
fictional character in Marvel Comics
32,190
views
views
33
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
31,616
views
views
34
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
31,225
views
views
35
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
30,941
views
views
36
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
30,705
views
views
37
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
29,682
views
views
38
John Jacob Astor IV
American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel (1864–1912)
28,667
views
views
39
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
28,592
views
views
40
Matthew Mercer
American actor
27,936
views
views
41
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
26,898
views
views
42
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
26,807
views
views
43
Bill Wyman
British musician, former bassist of the Rolling Stones
26,278
views
views
44
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
25,965
views
views
45
Clarence Birdseye
American inventor (1886–1956)
25,877
views
views
46
Gunther von Hagens
German anatomist (1945–2026)
25,357
views
views
47
Levi Strauss
German-Jewish-born American businessman (1829-1902)
24,435
views
views
48
Iron Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
24,423
views
views
49
Johannes Gutenberg
German inventor and craftsman (1400-1468)
24,405
views
views
50
Abubakar Salim
British actor and game designer
24,314
views
views
51
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
23,803
views
views
52
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
23,279
views
views
53
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
22,164
views
views
54
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
22,094
views
views
55
Levi Hutchins
American clockmaker (1761–1855)
21,235
views
views
56
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
21,175
views
views
57
Hank Green
American author, vlogger, and science communicator
20,923
views
views
58
The Doctor
fictional character from the television series Doctor Who
20,858
views
views
59
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
20,562
views
views
60
Mark Rober
American YouTuber, engineer and inventor
19,621
views
views
61
Artemy Lebedev
Russian designer
18,938
views
views
62
Jacques Cousteau
French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)
18,768
views
views
63
Tony Stark
fictional character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
18,599
views
views
64
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919–2013)
18,502
views
views
65
Epic Games
American video game and software developer
17,983
views
views
66
Mike Oldfield
English musician (born 1953)
17,960
views
views
67
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
17,733
views
views
68
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
16,980
views
views
69
David Packouz
American former arms dealer
16,734
views
views
70
Phil Robertson
American professional hunter, businessman and reality television personality
16,609
views
views
71
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
16,448
views
views
72
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
16,332
views
views
73
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
16,269
views
views
74
Sam Houser
British video game producer and developer
16,157
views
views
75
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
15,930
views
views
76
Jony Ive
English designer and former Chief Design Officer at Apple (born 1967)
15,706
views
views
77
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
15,605
views
views
78
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
15,493
views
views
79
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
15,165
views
views
80
Ruth Handler
American businesswoman
14,774
views
views
81
Jonas Salk
Jewish-American inventor of polio vaccine (1914–1995)
14,647
views
views
82
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
14,442
views
views
83
Lori Greiner
American TV personality and entrepreneur
14,385
views
views
84
Laurie Anderson
American artist and musician (born 1947)
14,092
views
views
85
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
13,807
views
views
86
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
13,544
views
views
87
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
13,513
views
views
88
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
13,479
views
views
89
Madam C. J. Walker
American entrepreneur (1867-1919)
13,386
views
views
90
Hidetaka Miyazaki
Japanese video game designer and executive (born 1974)
13,090
views
views
91
Alanah Pearce
Australian video game writer and journalist
12,871
views
views
92
Joseph Pilates
German inventor of pilates (1883–1967)
12,842
views
views
93
Raymond Kurzweil
American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist and inventor (born 1948)
12,339
views
views
94
Ed Boon
American videogame producer
12,242
views
views
95
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914)
12,221
views
views
96
Shiva Ayyadurai
Indian inventor
12,216
views
views
97
Satoshi Tajiri
Japanese video game designer
11,874
views
views
98
Willis Carrier
American inventor (1876–1950)
11,857
views
views
99
Ferdinand Porsche
Austrian-born German automotive engineer, inventor (1875–1951)
11,712
views
views
100
Scott Cawthon
former independent video game developer
11,359
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